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MACHINE FOR'DlSPLAYlNG ADVERTISING AND OTHER CARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,068, datedJuly 26, 1887.

Application filed April 5, 1887. Serial No. 233,713. (No modem ing and other Cards; and I do hereby declare I the following, when taken in connection with the drawlngs accompanying and forming a part hereof, to be a full and complete description of my invention sufficient to enable those 7 skilled inthe art to which it appertains to construct and operate the same.

My invention relates to that class of machines in which a large number of cards of the same size and preferably of the same thickness are faced one way and placed in a channel or trough forming a guideway leading to the machine, from which guideway the cards are automatically taken by the machine, either singly, in pairs, or in other quantities, and the faced side, on which are printed advertisements, photographs, or other desired characters, exposed to view for a definite period of time through apertures in plates properly placed therefor.

The object of my invention is to secure amachine of the character described,sim ple in construction and design, yet more accurate in operation and less liable to injure the advertising or other cards used therein or manipulated thereby than the machines heretofore made.

In the machine embodying my invention and described herein the cards are placed in a row in the channel forming the guideway and pressed against a sliding head forming a part of the machine, and which will. be fully hereinafter described, by a .weight or spring attached to a cord, the other end of the cord being secured to a sliding block placed in said guideway and pressing against the rear-card of said row. The sliding head referred to'is caused to move back and forth vertically at regular intervals before the front card of the row, and at each completed movement of the sliding head the front two cards of the row are taken consecutively therefrom and exposed to View through apertures in a plate not forminga part of the machine, but placed before.

the sliding head in such manner that at the lowest point of movement of the sliding head the cards retained or held therein are back of said apertures, and at no other time or position of said sliding head are such cards to be viewed through the apertures in said plate, nor can the sliding head itself be seen at any other time. I have not illustrated this plate, for the reason, as stated, that it forms no material part of my invention or the machine embodying the same.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 3 8 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a crosssection on line at 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an elevation better illustrating certain levers hereinafter fully described, which form a portion of the machine. Fig. 6 is a back elevation of Fig. 2 on line 6 6 of Fig. 1.

- Like .letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

X X X is the frame work of the machine. That part of the frame-work lettered X forms what may be more properly termed the standard part of the frame, holding the several trains of wheels, hereinafter described, and constituting, also, a base for that part of the frame lettered X and X". The part lettered X forms the guideway for the cards to be manipulated and exposed to view by the machine, and the part lettered X forms a guide for the slidinghead already referred to, in which the cards are held when exposed to view.

Y'is the casing of an ordinary clock-work arrangement, and its ,use is simply to give a regular rotary movement to the wheel Y.

Y are pins on the wheel Y. Each of the pins Y acts upon theleverZ during a portion of the revolution of the wheel Y, slightly raising said lever'Z at regular intervals. The lever Z falls by its own weight, or assisted by a spring, back to its original position as soon as the pin raising it has passed a sufficient distance in the are of its revolution to go from under said lever. The raising of the lever Z as last above set forth raises a second lever, Z, which rests in the construction Ihave illustrated by means of a pin, Z upon the lever Z. The raising of the lever Z releases a fly, p, driven by the train of wheels (to be hereinafter more fully described) actuating the sliding head. The lever Z has a vertical movement and rests at its extreme lower end on the notched wheel a when the notch a on said wheel is not directly under said lever Z, at which time the said lever rests, as above de scribed, on the lever Z. The upper end of Z comes over the fly p in such a manner as to be free from engagement with said fly when the lower end of said lever Z is resting on the wheel a, and to be engaged with said fly, preventing mot-ion therein, when the lower end of said lever is in said not-ch a.

Z" is a pin in lever Z, by which the raising of the lever Z also raises the lever Z.

By the above described arrangement of the pinned wheel Y and lever Z, and the combination thereof with the arrangement of the notched wheel a and lever Z, it is evident that said lever Z will engage with and prevent mo tion in the fiyp only when the pin Y is in such position as to allow the lever Z to descend snfliciently to permit the lever Z, resting thereon, to engage with said fly p", and when at the same time the notch a is in position also to allow the lever Z to descend.

P P P P P" P" is an ordinary train of wheels, having a drum and cord with weight attached, or spring, if preferred, at one end thereof for actuating it, and the fly p" at the other end thereof, by which its speed or rate of movement is governed.

A is a crank driven by the portion P P of said train of wheels P P', inclusive.

Upon the release of the fly p, by the raising of the lever Z through the lever Z and pinned wheel Y, the crank A makes one revo' lution in the direction illustrated by the arrow in Fig. 2 before the train of wheels P P is again stopped, the stopping of the train being caused by the dropping of the lever Z, which rests on the notched wheel a, into the notch a, as above described.

The crank A and notched wheel a are both secured to the same shaft and revolve in unison.

B is the sliding head before named, and moves vertically in the part Z of the framework of the device. For the purpose of lessening the power required to actuate the train of wheels P P, I have counterbalanced, or nearly so, the sliding head B by a spring, B. The sliding head Bis attached to the crank A by a connectingrod, A, and hence makes one upward movement and return at each revolution of the crank A, the notch a in the wheel a being so placed thereon that the crank A is at its lowest point of movement when the le ver Z falls in said notch a, thereby engaging with the fly p and stopping the train ofwhecls P P.

b b are openings or apertures in the sliding head B, through which the face of the cards are exposed to viewafter being taken from the guideway formed by X of the frame-work of my device and carried downward by said sliding head B to its lowest point of movement.

0 G G O are ribs placed on the back side of sliding head B and secured to orintegral therewith. Ribs C G O O are beveled on their upper edge, so that in the upward move ment of sliding head B the cards in the guideway that are being pressed against the back face of said sliding head are pushed backward in said guideway and not pushed upward in the plane in which they rest. The lower edge of the ribs 0 C UG is at right angles with the back face of the sliding head B, or nearly so, and in the downward movement of said sliding head B engages with the upper edge of the card next against the sliding head, and said card is taken downward thereby. These ribs being of less thickness than is the card employed, but one of said cards is engaged by the series of ribs lettered G 0 above the upper aperture, Z), in the sliding head B, and one by the series of ribs 0' C between the apertures b I).

D D are ribs of about the same thickness or depth as the ribs 0 O, and are secured to or are integral with the part X of the frame. The ribs D D extend down to about the top line of the guideway for the cards, or to about the top edge of the cards in said guideway, and their purpose is to prevent upward move ment in the cards when the sliding head is moving upward. They are so placed thatthe ribs 0 C may pass between them.

E is a spring catch or bolt, as preferred. if a spring-catch is used, it may be bent up of flat spring brass or other suitable metal. I prefer, however, to use a spring-bolt of substantially the shape illustrated in cross-section in Fig. 4:, and in which the bolt is forced out into position by spring 0. The upper edge of this spring catchor bolt is beveled, and in the downward movement of sliding head B the card or cards retained in said sliding head press the catch or bolt back snfliciently to permit said card or cards to pass by. \Vhen the sliding head ascends, the lower edge of the spring catch or bolt, being at right angles to the back face of the sliding head B and extendi ng over the cards, prevents the cards from ascending with such sliding head.

F F are bristle brushes. These brushes press gently against the back face of the sliding head B, and when said sliding head descends with a card or cards therein these brushes F F press against the cards with sufficient force to prevent such cards from falling from said sliding head. \Vhen the sliding head B ascends, the cards are prevented from ascending in unison therewith by spring catches or bolts E E, and after the sliding head has passed above said cards they may and do drop from said bristle brushes F F.

V is a weight attached to one end of the cord V, the other end of the cord being secured to a sliding block, XV, in the guideway, pressing said block against the row of cards therein, the cards being thereby held against the back face of sliding head B.

XV are cards in the guideway.

is a groove in partX of the frame-work, in which that portion of cord V which is in the guideway formed by said part X moves.

The operation of my device is as follows:

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Upon the revolution of the crank A, (occurring when pin Y on wheel Y raises the 'lever Z from fly p the sliding head B is than the cards in the guideway formed by X of the frame of the machine; and upon the de scent of the sliding head B the front card in said guideway is taken downward with said sliding head, ribs 0 C- (between the apertures b b) striking the upper edge of the card and forcing it down; and when the ribs 0 0 above aperture 1) strike the upper edge of the then front card in said guideway, it too is taken down by said sliding head B. As the cards thus being carried down by the sliding head B pass by the catch or bolt E, said catch or bolt is pressed back by its beveled head coming in contact with the descending cards, and hence opposes no material obstruction to such descent. Upon the ascent of the sliding head B the spring catch or bolt E prevents the cards from ascending, and they are therefore left stationary as the head passes away from them, and as soon as said sliding head B has passed from in front of the cards they drop from the bristles. into any suitable receptacle, andmay be gathered together and placed in the guideway, to be again passed through the machine.

Having thus-described my invention and its operation, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine for displaying advertising and other cards, the combination of a sliding head having ribs on the back thereof, beveled on their upper edges, moving in a frame placed in front of a guideway for said cards, with spring catches or bolts, also beveled on their upper edges, placed in said frame'back of said sliding head, all substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a machine for displaying advertising and other cards, the combination of a. sliding head having ribs on the back thereof, beveled on their upper edges, moving in a frame also having ribs therein, and said frame being placed in front of a guideway for said cards, together with spring catches or bolts also beveled on their upper edges, and bristles or bristle brushes placed in said frame and pressing against said sliding head.

3. In a machine of the character herein described clock-work actuating a lever which lifts a second lever releasing the fly of a train of wheels actuating a sliding head, a notched wheel placed on said train of wheels and engaging with said second lever, in combination with the sliding head passing in front of a guideway for cards, all substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a machine of the character herein described, a lever actuated by clock-work and actuating a second lever, a train of wheels actuating a fly controlled by such secondlever, a notched wheel controlling said second'lever; and a sliding head moving in front of a guideway for cards, said sliding head having ribs beveled on their upper edges on the back thereof, all combined substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a machine for displaying advertising and other cards, a lever actuated by clock work acting upon a second lever, a train of Wheels actuating a fly controlled by said second lever, a notched wheel controlling said second lever, and a sliding head moving in front of aguideway for cards, said sliding head having ribs beveled on their upper edges on the back thereof, and a sliding block pressing the cards in said guideway against the sliding head, all combined substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

PETER SEYL. 

